Example sentences of "more [adv] as it " in BNC.

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1 The sunflower does not learn by experience to turn its head more effectively as it matures , or not to turn at all if it is repeatedly electrically shocked every time it does so .
2 If it covers the case only superficially there is the possibility of palliation and suppression without cure , the more so as it is repeated so frequently .
3 His was a hectic life , becoming more so as it went on .
4 Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay .
5 Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay .
6 Even more so as it caught me with a mouthful of pancake and hot sauced prawns .
7 Now , I conceive that a plan of the kind which I have sketched … would answer the purpose , and more especially as it would give the honour due to the focus of all our liberties , of that regulated freedom which we hope will overspread the world .
8 It was my experience that seldom did the more senior of his element — and there were many of them — fit into the operational set-up , more especially as it got towards the end of the war .
9 The logarithm of the number of men having at least s units of solidity will at first fall linearly with s , then more rapidly as it approaches the fixed upper limit of 1000 papers , beyond which no man has achieved . ’
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